ThelmaLou:
In my comments that pissed everyone off, I told people what to post or not post on my thread, but even while doing it I knew, and everyone else knew, that I had absolutely NO WAY of enforcing it. No matter how strongly worded, if you’re not a mod, it’s only a request with no teeth in it. So I don’t see what the big deal is. The people reading the thread are free to agree to the request or completely ignore it, and I’m fine with that. Why? Because that is reality.
OTOH, when a mod says post/don’t post or “this is unacceptable,” a mod can warn you and eventually ban you. A mod is all-powerful in the SDMB world, and that is as it should be, as I said in this post. A board like this needs to be moderated or it deteriorates into chaos and 10,000 post threads that no one can navigate.
So, in practice, the difference between so-called “junior modding” and real modding is infinite, like the difference between 0 and 1.
No. What you did in the Pit would and should be moderated as Jr Mod’ing had you done the same in GD. You were Jr Mod’ing, it’s just that we’ve decide that’s OK in the Pit.